Photo: Cassie Bishop
The Women’s Premier League (WPL) has concluded its regular season and the national championships follow this Friday and Sunday, Nov. 1 and Nov. 3, in Glendale, Colo. Exact game times to be announced. Games will be live-stream via FloRugby.
WEEK 10 RESULTS
Atlanta 49-0 Chicago North Shore
New York 32-12 Beantown
Life West 55-21 ORSU
Glendale 38-12 San Diego
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
FRIDAY, NOV 1
5TH PLACE PLAY-IN
10 a.m. San Diego (W4) vs. Chicago North Shore (E5)
11:45 a.m. Twin Cities (E4) vs. ORSU (W5)
5TH PLACE SEMIFINAL
1:45 p.m. Beantown (E3) vs. Berkeley (W5)
CUP SEMIFINALS
3:30 p.m. Life West (W1) vs. New York (E2)
5:30 p.m. Atlanta (E1) vs. Glendale (W2)
SUNDAY, NOV 3
Placing matches
The top-four teams contending for the title, their competition is straight-forward: Friday’s winners play for first on Sunday and the losers play for third. There’s more nuance for the bottom-six teams. Beantown and Berkeley, which finished third in their respective conferences this season, contest a 5th-place semifinal, meaning the winner advances to the 5th-place match Sunday and the loser heads to the 7th-place match.
For those teams involved in the 5th place play-ins, the winner with the larger point differential advances to the 5th place match Sunday, and the winning team with the smaller point differential moves onto the 7th place match. The two losers contest the 9th place match and both are vulnerable to challenge matches from DI teams.
10 a.m. 9th Place
11:45 a.m. 7th Place
1:45 p.m. 5th Place
3:30 p.m. 3rd Place
5:30 p.m. Final